environmental protection agency

For many people, the Environmental Protection Agency conjures up images of thugs who come beat you with a bag of doorknobs if you don't recycle your plastic. While the agency does have the power to fine and sanction anyone who is not complying with strict environmental standards, the goal of the agency has always been and always will be to simply make America cleaner and safer.

When President Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency (with Congress's backing) on December 2, 1970, it is doubtful he had any idea how big and powerful the agency would come in just a few short decades. The agency now has approximately 18,000 full-time employees who conduct environmental assessment, research, and education.

As can be expected, this research has created a lot of "Technological Jiggery Pokery." Everything from wind and wave turbines, solar power, wood pellets, hybrid cars, and recycling centers have all come into being because of the direction and vision of the Environmental Protection Agency. The agency also leverages this research to work with industries and all levels of government in a wide variety of voluntary pollution prevention programs and energy conservation efforts.

Bloggers speaking about the Environmental Protection Agency can be found at such sites as globalwarmingisreal and greenversations.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “environmental protection agency”

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “environmental protection agency”

 

• Obama’s America: EPA Officials Visit Man For Sending Email

  
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  About a month ago, EPA regional official Al Armendariz made news when a YouTube video of him describing the way the agency handles oil and gas companies surfaced. In it, Armendariz said an analogy he liked to use about enforcement was how the Romans used crucifixion to keep smaller towns and villages under their ...
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• Threat of blackouts (after the election) — Cooking the books: new scandal in the making?

  
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  By Wes Vernon The threat of an accelerated economic collapse after the November election (a concern feared by analysts for months) may be accompanied by rolling blackouts that will leave the prospect of millions of Americans either freezing or roasting in the dark. In the years immediately ahead, that could lead to ...
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• SWANA Seeks Solid Waste Exemption from EPA Tailoring Rule

  
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  The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) is seeking an exemption from proposed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations on biogenic carbon dioxide emissions from combustion at landfill gas and waste-to-energy facilities. read more
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• BP Settles With Environmental Groups Over Whiting, Ind., Refinery

  
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  Plaintiffs who sued BP over its refinery in Whiting, Ind., say a $400 million settlement will improve the health of people who live near the plant.
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• Green Blog: On Our Radar: BP to Tame Refinery Flares

  
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  Federal regulators cited the company for repeatedly exceeding emissions limits on refinery flares that release harmful chemicals during malfunctions.
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• On Our Radar: BP to Tame Refinery Flares

  
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  Federal regulators cited the company for repeatedly exceeding emissions limits on refinery flares that release harmful chemicals during malfunctions.
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• Obama wants the Electric Reliability Corporation to stop assessing electric reliability

  
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  Guest post by Alec Rawls NERC (the North American Electric Reliability Corporation) must have thought it was taking a step up when a 2005 law made the non-profit group an official advisor to Congress, but that law also brought them … Continue reading →
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• Uranium Mine Home of New Plant Species

  
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  SMH reported a new species of succulent plants has been found at a planned uranium mine in Western Australia. Continue reading...
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• Advantages of Fish Oil for Fitness and well-being

  
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  Once the words oils and fats are pointed out, health-conscious people often run for cover. The things they do not realize is the fact that you will find good fats and bad fats. Complete avoidance of consumption of oils and fats would really be harmful – instead of advantageous – for their health. The reality ...
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• The EPA and stopping the Spruce (rape-the-Earth) mine

  
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  Good editorial here on the EPA’s recent decision to rescind the permit for a mountaintop removal coal mine in West Virginia that would have continued the criminal-like burying of natural streams with the mining rubble.
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• Editorial: Environmental Protection Agency and the Spruce Mine

  
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  The agency will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that overturned its decision to protect miles of streams in West Virginia. This is exactly the right move.
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• Your Electricity Rates Are Necessarily Going To Skyrocket: Obama Administration Pressured Contractors to Change Coal Mining Job Loss Numbers

  
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  Let’s put this is perspective … China is reported to be opening one coal fired power plant per WEEK. So how’s what we are doing helping with the President’s Global Warming hoax? Apparently the President is the only one left in the world who believes the hoaxers. You may want to ask, why does your electricity ...
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• EPA launches new Years to Payback feature for alt-fuel vehicles

  
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  Filed under: Etc. , Hybrid , MPG , USA Did you know the Cadillac Escalade Hybrid is a better deal for fuel-economy-inclined car buyers than a Honda Insight ? True story, but only sorta. Using a new section of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys FuelEconomy.gov website, we can now quantify the time ...
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• Restoring the Lead Paint RRP Opt-Out- How Does it Affect You?

  
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  Lead paint (Photo credit: Wikipedia) We’ve discussed the Lead Paint RRP requirements in the past here at Construction Law Musings.  Since its passage almost a year ago, there has been a lot of debate about its necessity and cost.  While this debate is interesting, I recommend a Google search on this topic for ...
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• Federal Water Tap, May 21: Colorado River Management

  
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  Going Up As part of its ongoing study of the Colorado River Basin, the Bureau of Reclamation released a technical report that uses six growth scenarios to quantify water demands in 2060 . From a 2015 baseline demand of 15.8 cubic kilometers (12.8 million acre-feet), water use from the Colorado increases between 1.2 ...
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• Prenatal exposure to pollution harmful for kids

  
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  Washington, May 21 (IANS) Prenatal exposure to air pollution through the mother can be especially serious for asthmic children, says a new study.Researchers looked at several pollutants, including carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone and particulate matter. Exposure to nitrogen dioxide during the first and second ...
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• Approval for Western Australia’s first uranium mine

  
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  The Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has recommended approval for Western Australia’s first uranium mine. Toro Energy Limited has been advised by the EPA that approval has been recommended for the company’s Wiluna Uranium Project. The EPA has presented a report to WA’s state minister ...
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• Senator James Inhofe Seeks to Destroy Landmark EPA Ruling

  
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  For parents and health administrators who thought that 2011 had ended in a victory for clean air, 2012 is yielding a new surprise from an elected representative who is determined to put a stranglehold on the Environmental Protection Agency . It took over two decades to nail down a ruling that would limit emissions ...
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• American Heart Association says Death risks higher for heart attack survivors living near major roadways

  
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  Dallas, TX – Heart attack  survivors who live about 100 meters (328 feet) or less from a major U.S. roadway face increased risk of death from all causes, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation. “We think there is exposure to a combination of air pollution near ...
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• Developments in Alaska campiagn – Bristol Bay

  
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  Fair Jewelry welcomes the following press release from the US Environmental Protection Agency. It is a step in the right direction towards the stopping of this irrational plan to open an open pit copper & gold mine at the head waters of the Bristol Bay in Alaska. However expect serious push back by well paid ...
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